This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 16 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
1
The Elgin Echo is issued each Thursday under publisher R P Strauch. It mails from Elgin Fayette County Iowa as second class matter.
Rates for foreign and local display per inch and readers per line plus per word classified. Payment in advance with a 2.58 dollar minimum for first insertion. No agency commission. Cards of Thanks and In Memoriam cards priced at regular rates. Notices with admission charges and obituary poetry noted under standard rates.
A jumble of humorous clippings and social notes on wartime shortages, rationing, and daily life. The column riffs on book titles, reads weather and economy, jokes about tires and gas, and recalls a satirical fish tale amid a town buzzing with purchase limits and civic talk. It reflects small-town attitudes and resilience during a period of shortages and mobilization.
Robert Gehring left Elgin to enlist for Uncle Sam after a farm duty spell at Elgin Farmers Dairy. Prof J E McCoy and Edna Wenger wed in Monticello with local turnouts. Ed Hanson becomes buttermaker again at Elgin Dairy Creamery. Several residents visit family, with A M Weibel and relatives returning from Guttenberg. J O Cowger joins Echo Office in Elgin from Kissimmee. R W Muehlenthaler heads to Postville and Dubuque for events and a state druggist convention.
In Walcott, Iowa, the Scott County Tribune suspended during wartime was revived when local merchants leased the paper to keep it running. Boosters fund operations and volunteer time, preserving local advertising media to prevent business loss to nearby Davenport. Publisher Victor Bluehorn helped spark the paper’s rise years ago and boosters aim to avoid a ghost town fate.
Months after urging cheese making, markets flood with cheese, causing prices to sag and transport shortages. In Westside, 500 businessmen fund a new block by donating five cents daily to form the Westside Nickelway Corporation, a non profit aiming to rebuild after a fire.
June 11 1942 a Navy Recruiting Station letter praises Iowa papers for aiding war effort. It commends community newspapers as backbone and spark plug and stresses cooperation, free press and worship freedoms. Signed by Truman Jones Lieutenant U S N R Officer in Charge.
May reports detail two districts with 24 and 25 herds tested respectively. DHIAs No 2 and No 4 show high producing herds led by Walter Kruempel and Ronald Grafenberg with many cows over 40 pounds fat, including several over 50 and 60 pounds, across Arlington Postville Clermont Elgin West Union and Clermont.
A political quip poring over fashion changes notes that even men's shirt tails and coat tails are being shortened for economy, arguing the timing would have affected past administrations and the hiring of officials, reflecting on incompetence in office.
Dr H W Barre of Red Oak buys a horse to visit patients as rationing and tire shortages loom. In Rock Rapids police curb rat shooting at the city dump after bullets misfire, requiring mayoral permits for shooting.
On June 1 farm work rose seasonally and labor was tighter than a month earlier with more reports of harder to obtain hired help but few actual shortages. Farmers used longer hours, more family labor, and mechanization. Wages with board averaged 58.75 dollars monthly, 3.00 daily, above U.S. and highest in the West North Central States.
Iowa offers 16mm sound educational films for first aid home nursing and nutrition classes free of charge through the state health department film library. Include Red Cross first aid film, home nursing titles, foods and nutrition, plus 10 additional films. Requests for exhibition dates next fall and winter urged.
Effective immediately the physical standards for all classes of the Naval Reserve except the Officer Branch are reduced. Eyes must read half inch letters at 15 feet with both eyes open and at 6 feet with the worst eye. Teeth must be sufficient to bite and chew or be false. No organic defects. Rechecks for previously rejected applicants at Decorah Navy Recruiting Station. Office hours 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily except Sunday 1:00 p.m.
After 18 years of sheep shearing James Misel, on Fred Webert's Luzerne flock, found a ewe producing 27 pounds of wool worth 11.34 at market. Otto Battles Rosemere Farm Maquoketa saw Queen of Rosemere 357, an Aberdeen Angus tow, sold for 5100 with LeBaron Farm Warrenton Va purchasing. Total breeding stock sales reached 23000 with an average 575 per head.
A brief library feature highlights Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings set in Cross Creek Florida noting its descriptive life like characters and enduring appeal. Also mentions Franka a Guide Dog by Walter Johnson for fourth and fifth graders, plus summer reading with usual hours Saturdays 2 to 4 PM.
S D Rothlisberger sells to Orvin Thompson a small acre parcel in Fayette county marked BE 1 2 SW 2 93 7 for one dollar. The transfer appears in county real estate records and reflects a nominal price.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.